I'm planning on picking up skyrim for my laptop on christmas, but I'm worried that since it's not exactly a gaming laptop, it might not be able to handle it. I had no problems running Fallout New Vegas with graphical enhancing mods at near or at max settings, and from the Just Cause 2 demo I tried with the default settings seemed to give me about 20-30fps with choppy cutscenes. The system requirements lab seems to say I can run it on at least minimum settings, but can't give me a definitive pass or fail. I already own skyrim for console, so my main concern is that it would just run to slow on my laptop to get any proper enjoyment from it.

Thanks Arthas. Already tried that Sirslimy, but at times the sites been weird giving me fails on games that I know I can run no problem, or telling me I should be able to run a game okay, only to have it completely poo itself when I try to play. I even said in my post that I already tried that site, but was worried that running it on the minimum settings it might still be to slow.

Thanks Arthas. Already tried that Sirslimy, but at times the sites been weird giving me fails on games that I know I can run no problem, or telling me I should be able to run a game okay, only to have it completely poo itself when I try to play. I even said in my post that I already tried that site, but was worried that running it on the minimum settings it might still be to slow.

Just play it on your 360 if you're worried about performance.

Aside from Mods, and the better graphics (both would lag your PC), there's no advantage to the PC version.

Awesome to hear I'll be able to run it. And just in time for the flash sale.

@SirSlimyScrotum said:

@wis3boi: I've never used it, how bad is it?

So far with my experience using that site, it's listed several of my computers components being inferior to what was needed, and the 'upgrades' where worse then what I currently had. It also has a problem of telling me games I can't run that I can (Hearthstone, Just Cause 2) and showing games that I should run at okay to mid settings, but can't (Payday 2. Quite choppy for me even on the lowest setting.)

Just downloaded Skyrim and played through the intro. The start up set me at medium graphics, and the game runs as smooth as a baby's bottom besides the occasional hiccups that are more from the fact it's a bethesda product than frame rate issues. Thank you guys so much for your quick responses.

Just downloaded Skyrim and played through the intro. The start up set me at medium graphics, and the game runs as smooth as a baby's bottom besides the occasional hiccups that are more from the fact it's a bethesda product than frame rate issues. Thank you guys so much for your quick responses.

Just downloaded Skyrim and played through the intro. The start up set me at medium graphics, and the game runs as smooth as a baby's bottom besides the occasional hiccups that are more from the fact it's a bethesda product than frame rate issues. Thank you guys so much for your quick responses.